Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestAlpha Alpha was a 1972 German science fiction fantasy television series which aired on ZDF. It starred Karl Michael Vogler, Lilith Ungerer, Arthur Brauss and Horst Sachtleben. Each episode was only 25 minutes long, the series lasted only one season. Karl Michael Vogler played agent alpha of an unnamed secret organization, investigating mysteries, technical and psychic phenomena and even alien encounters. Alpha Alpha's tenor is comparable to the later X-Files drama television series.
Production
1972 German TV budget creating maximum atmosphere.
Writing
Greek letter codenames before it was cool.
Direction
Erich Ferstl's tight, paranoid visual language.
Creator
Erich Ferstl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show's TMDB rating comes from exactly four votes—true cult obscurity.
Created during the Baader-Meinhof era, its surveillance themes hit differently in divided Germany.
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